Month: October 2017
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Suburbicon
Suburbicon is the new film from George Clooney, stepping behind the camera with a Coen Brothers script. So much pedigree, but it’s hit and miss. Usually the names “Coen” and “Clooney” go together like goofball peas and carrots. From O Brother, Where Art Thou? to Burn After Reading, the combo almost always guarantees quality. So…
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The Grand Gothic Halloween Steampunk Sideshow Spectacular!
Here comes Halloween! And a scary Halloween party tour! Lord Montague Jacques Fromage and New Jacobin Club Present: The Grand Gothic Halloween Steampunk Sideshow Spectacular. With the current tension in international political relations, as in the US vs. the world, it is time for profound unification, a time for courageous personalities to step forward and…
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Destroyer – ken
Dan Bejar was missing from The New Pornographer’s new album, most likely because he was recording his new one, ‘ken,’ an exploratory, but consistent record. This year’s ‘Whiteout Conditions,’ the latest New Pornogrphers album feels incomplete, and that’s likely because of longtime member Dan Bejar’s absence. Presumably he was busy crafting his 11th record as…
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The Snowman
Once you can stop snickering at the name of the main character, Harry Hole, you can probably pass on this snowy, choking avalanche of rubbish. The new film The Snowman presented itself to audiences months ago in the form of a creepy and atmospheric trailer. “Sign me up!” many folks, this writer included, proclaimed. Even…
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The Feedback Society’s Week in Music
Some albums we’ve been discussing over drinks this week at The Feedback Society, like The Killers, The 1975, Laura Branigan, classic Jens Lekman, and more. The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful Hot Fuss casts a very long shadow over the Killers. That album is a stone cold classic of the 2000s (Sam’s Town is really good…
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The Babysitter
McG is back! Wait, no one’s excited about that prospect. But he made The Babysitter for Netflix, a bit of a turd in the punchbowl. The Black List is an annual list of the “most liked” movie screenplays that aren’t yet produced, based on a survey by studio and production company executives. It should be…
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FME 2017
Our intrepid reporter, Stacey Mclaughlin, heads to FME, an emerging music festival in the Northern Quebec city of Rouyn-Noranda. It’s a music festival diary, folks! FME is an emerging music festival held in the Northern Quebec city of Rouyn-Noranda. To give the average westerner a sense of perspective, it is almost parallel with Timmins, ON.…
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Happy Death Day
Groundhog Day meets Scream in Happy Death Day, a horror movie from the director of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Eh, it’s okay, I guess. It’s Groundhog Day meets Scream for one unlucky young woman in Happy Death Day, a new horror movie from Blumhouse productions. The high concept premise is pretty decent, but the…
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Blade Runner 2049
A review of Blade Runner 2049 turns into a mini rant about the state of cinema and culture. See, a great movie makes you think. The original Blade Runner has been a piece of art in motion, morphing and changing from the 1982 original (and sometimes maligned) theatrical cut, through to 2007’s Final Cut, where…